IRISH AFFAIRS.
SINN FEIN OUTRAGE. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIE. LONDON, February 19. There was an extraordinary scene'at the Police Court at Ennis, when twen-ty-two youths were charged with cattle-driving. A Sinn Fein leader made a dramatic appearance in the Court. He Mew three blasts on a whistle and ordered Sinn Feiners to follow. The prisoners climbed out of the dock and escaped. Four hundred Sinn Feiners, in the name of the Irish Republic, took over 200 acres of grazing land at Gurteen, Sligo, for cropping purposes.
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Taihape Daily Times, 21 February 1918, Page 5
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85IRISH AFFAIRS. Taihape Daily Times, 21 February 1918, Page 5
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